Toy paste-strip forming device for peanuts and the like



March 11, 1969 E. J. SWIMMx-:R ET Ax. 3,431,957

TOY PASTE-STRIP FORMING DEVICE FOR PEANUTS AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. 30.1967 Sheetl l of 2 m 4% fig. J/Jmf.

ATTORNEY.

March 11, 1969 E. J. swlMMER ET AL 3,431,957

I TOY PASTE-STRIP FORMING DEVICE FOR PEANUTS AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. 30,1967 v Sheet 2 of 2 ATTORNEY.

United States Patent Oce 3,431,957 Patented Mar. 1l, 1969 3,431,957 TOYPASTE-STRIP FORMING DEVICE FOR PEANUTS AND THE LIKE Ernest I. Swimmer,340 E. 52nd St. 10022, and Alan A. Hicks, 33o E. smh st. 10021, both ofNew Yurk,

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Filed Jan. 3o, 1967, ser. No. 612,492 U.s. c1. 14s-182 s im. c1. A2311/21; A475 9/00 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The invention will bedescribed with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view, showing in dotted lines a stand from whichrises a housing the operative elements of the invention shown in fulllines, and the casing and stand having a hand rest, a receptacle beingindicated on the stand;

FIGURE 2 is a composite View, with the elements in perspective, certainelements being broken away, 4and comprising the compression cylinder,the handle-carried screw, and Iassociated elements;

FIG. 3l is a vertical section through the elements of FIG. 2 inconnected condition, the handle being partly broken away;

FIG. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4-4, FIG. 2.

Referring to the drawings and specifically FIG. 1, it will be seen thatthe device comprises a `base 1 from which rises a housing 2, the latterbeing shaped, in the embodiment shown, as the well-known Mister Peanut,the hat indicated at 3 having a vertical aperture indicated at 4.Opposed wall areas of housing 2 are apertured in a horizontal line toreceive the operative structure shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, inclusive.

The operative structure consists of a tubular compression cylinder 5carrying a normally -11p-standing, openended inlet tube section 6. Atits rear end member 5 is formed with a die closure at 6X, the latterbeing formed with a narrow slot at 7. At its front end compressioncylinder 5 is open and inwardly receives compression screw 8, the lattercarrying a handle 9. Member 5 is preferably formed with an innermostshoulder 10 and with a second shoulder 11. These two shoulders of thecompression cylinder abut corresponding shoulders formed on the screw 8at its outer area. The die-closure 6X is formed with a central apertureat 12 to receive a headed rod 14, which is threaded at its end. This rodpasses through opening 12 of the closure `die 6x thencejthrough anaperture at 15 which runs axially through the screw l8, its threaded endnormally being positioned somewhat beyond the handle element 9. Thethreaded end of rod 14 receives a turn-nut 16, which bears againstclosure disk 17 to hold the assembly in connected condition. It will benoted that the closure disk 17 is preferably formed with two shouldersto abut the annular face 18, FIG. 2, of the compression screw and aninner shoulder 19, FIG. 2 of the screw. Thus, in the preferred form ofthe device, the closure disk 17 may rotate with the screw. Also in thepreferred form of the device, the screw at its rear end, and axiallythereof, s formed with a stub-axle which enters aperture 12 of thecompression cylinder and closely lits the same, the stub yaxle having anaperture to receive threaded rod 14. The said stub axle is shown at 20.

A feature of the invention is that to enable compression anddisintegration of the nuts in la controlled manner, to enable a child tooperate the device easily and without jamming the screw in thecompression cylinder. The screw is formed with receiving cavity at 21,to receive a single peanut if large or two peanuts of the small red typeonly, in each rotation of the screw. Of course the device is adapted forthe paste forming of small nuts other than peanuts, almonds being anexample.

In FIGURE 2 the compression cylinder is shown with a plurality oflongitudinally extending channels 22 and hence with ribs between them,one rib being indicated at 23, FIGURE 2. However, such channel and ribarrangement is not essential for the operation of the device.

Various modifications may be made in the form and arrangement of theelements shown in the illustrated ernbodiment without departing from thespirit of the invention. While it is preferable that the inlet tubularmember 6 of the compression be made as a separate member to be threadedor otherwise reasonably held on the outer surface of the cylinder body,as an alternative, the housing member 2 may be made of two connectableparts. When the structure is, as customary, of light weight, it isdesirable that the left hand of the operator hold the device down on asupport by grasping an arm such as that indicated at 23, FIG. l. In thatfigure the arm is shown as leading from the housing 2 and thenceextending downwardly for lirm connection with the stand or base 1.

Having described my invention, what I claim and de sire to secure byLetters Patent, is as follows:

1. In a toy paste-strip forming device for peanuts and the like, acompression cylinder having a slot-like discharge opening vat one end, acompression screw in said cylinder, a handle device for rotating saidscrew, an inlet for nut kernels in said cylinder, and a controllingnutreceiving cavity in the screw in line with said inlet and adapted tolimit discharge as to unit number of nut kernels into operation "by thescrew in each of successive resolutions of said screw.

2. A toy paste-strip forming device for peanuts and the like,constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which the cavity in the screwimmediately precedes the spiral ridge of the screw.

3. A toy paste-'strip forming device for peanuts and the like,constructed in accordance with claim 1, in combination with a dieclosure at one end of the compression cylinder, -and in which theslot-like discharge opening is formed, an axial aperture in said dieclosure, a headed rod passing through the compression screw via saidopening, a handle device at the end of the cylinder opposite the closuredie and receiving the threaded end of the rod, and a threaded member onthe end of the rod engaging the exterior of the handle device.

4. A toy paste-strip forming device for peanuts and the like,constructed in accordance with claim 1, in combination with a housing, abase member for said housing, opposed apertures in the side wall of thehousing, and receiving and supporting the compression cylinder, atubular inlet member communicating with the top area of the housing andwith the impression cylinder in line with the cavity of the compressionscrew, the Ihousing lbeing open to the top of said tubular inlet member.

5. A toy paste-strip forming device for peanuts and the like,constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which the compression screwis formed at its rear end with a References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS2,013,009 9/1935 Satzinger 146-186 12/1942 Davis et al. 146-182 FOREIGNPATENTS 1/ 1923 France.

5 W. GRAYDON ABERCROMBIE, Primary Examiner.

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